How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, Choose water instead of juice / fizzy, Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? It rasied my students' awareness of the importance of water and how and what they can do to save water in their daily lives. We were studying the Earth's spheres as our Student Inquiry during that term, it fitted well with our inquiry topic. The students searched and learned about the water cycle, water pollution, hydropshere and the interactions between the four spheres.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? This was a great incentives. They loved taking turns doing it. Tap off, brush on.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes! They are more aware that how important it is to use water wisely and they can take every opporunity to help saving water in everyday life.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“1. How did it go for my class My class have had enjoyed using this kits. The resource pack (stickers and badges) was very helpful. My students felt proud when wearing their badges as they were on a mission to save water. We did the checkings every moring before starting the day's learning activities and this was the time for my students to go through all the water saving tips which is fantastic! 2. Kit and resources The kit and the online resources provided for the kit was awesome but it was somehow difficult and took a lot of time to nevigate around the site and not knowing what resources were more sutiable for the level of my students. 3. The measuring aspects of the posters We did not touch on the measruing aspect of each benchmark. I found the instructions provided confuing and was not able to find time to check and understand further regarding this aspect.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, Choose water instead of juice / fizzy, Tap off while brushing teeth, Using the chore chooser

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? When we discussed about only having 3% of freshwater, that really changed their perspective of playing around with water. The students brainstormed different ways they should be saving water. The water saving habits are still visible in the classroom and school. A grandmother said to me, her grandson is pretty serious about saving water at home. That shows the influence it left on the children. We also discussed about drought in some countries, NZ water saving techniques,etc

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? The students lined up to stamp daily and to show off their water management to other students. It began as healthy competition among them to find who saves the most water. The 5 mins shower was fascinating to them, as they discussed they don’t take that long to shower.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Significantly changed, they don’t play around with water, warn and educate others about saving water. They have indeed become the water warriors, this task made them feel responsible for their future.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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“Water Savers 2024 : This task was something new my students had come across. It was different than regular teaching in class, it gave them a chance to be warrior and put efforts to conserve water. The kit covered various ways we humans can work to save and conserve water, it highlighted to importance of saving water and how every tiny effort counts. The task made students responsible of their actions, made them feel concerned about their future. Overall, all my students and myself, we enjoyed the task. It was very easy to follow.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? My class became very interested in saving water and our classroom sink became a important space to police!

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? I thought the daily stamping would be annoying but it was fine!

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? My students definitely feel more responsibility for saving water and also their knowledge of how to save water has improved - it's not just something they should do but now it's something that they can do.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“My Year 5/6 class enjoyed this school kit. Saving water was a concept they were somewhat familiar with and could also easily grasp. They take-home items such as the coaster were a real hit as they always love anything tangible. I would say however the posters were quite large and we are already lacking wall space in the classroom so I didn't struggle with them a bit!”

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Posted 7 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers, Using the chore chooser

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? We still talk about saving water now, long after finishing the kit.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? They enjoyed all of them

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes it fostered a sense of responsibility

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“The kids really enjoyed monitoring their water use at home at reporting this back via the stamp on the charts. We did feel that some of the 'containers' had similar themes around the water/fizzy drinks. We loved using our maths skills to work out how much water we saved. The support material with looking at the water cycle, problems with our water and what we use water for were great ways to integrate the kit into our literacy programme.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Gave us the platform for discussion and raised awareness of how little actions add up.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? It created good discussions especially comparing between turning the tap off when brushing teeth and 5 minute showers.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? I think our students had a pretty good awareness prior but it allowed for bigger discussions especially as we explored water issues for children in other countries.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Great way to introduce our class to statistical investigations within a real life context. It also allowed us to discuss and explore other learning and issues through Water Savers. Hugely engaging for our students.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, Choose water instead of juice / fizzy, Tap off while brushing teeth

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Hopefully long lasting.

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? This wasn't so successful, but they were engaged in being water police at school and at home.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes it did foster increased responsibility and awareness of water usage and where it comes from in our area.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Such a good kit and really relevant for our learners. A lot of our tamariki are on wells, in cluding here at school and can take water for granted. It was eye opening and families loved it too.”

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Posted 7 months ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? The students were extremely unmotivated and I found it a real push for them to become engaged even though we had been studying Environmental issues.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? No fascination or engagement and did not stamp without heavy pushing and reminding from me

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? There was discussion around saving of water and with some there appeared to be a little more awareness

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“The quality of resources is amazing, the plan is amazing and in an ideal world would have been fantastic however it just didn't suit my students. There was a lot of 'at home' components to complete this successfully and buy in was extremely low from my Year 7 students. Would potentially work better with younger more engaged students.”

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How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? It tied in well with some other learning we were doing around sustainability. Many students made adjustments to their daily habits as a result

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? The visualisation of everyone's contribution all together was beneficial to show how one persons part plays into bigger impact of a whole

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? For some it did, others it perhaps reinforced what they already knew.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“This was a great kit, the resources and learning were very engaging for the students.”

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